Africa: Diseases Cost Africa U.S.$2.4 Trillion a Year - WHO

The World Health Organisation has launched a new report titled "A Heavy Burden - An Indirect Course of Illness in Africa" at the second Africa Health Forum in Praia, Cape Verde. Read more »

Africa: Strong System, Financing 'Key' for Zambian Universal Health Coverage

allAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo is in Praia, Cabo Verde, for the second WHO Africa Health Forum. This year the focus is on attaining universal health coverage for the continent - here… Read more »

Africa: What We Need to Get Healthcare for All Africans

Leaders and policy makers, ministries of health and finance, inter-governmental  agencies, the private sector, civil society organizations and members of the media are… Read more »

Africa: 'Exciting' News in Fight Against Drug-Resistant TB

In an important step in the fight against strains of tuberculosis which resist conventional treatments, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to review urgently a… Read more »

Africa: Exciting Breakthrough for TB Prevention Announced by Pan-African Health Organization

Ten million people around the world became sick with tuberculosis (TB) in 2017. The World Health Organization calls it "the world's deadliest curable disease". Read more »

Southern Africa: Major New Study Points Way to Cut HIV Infections

Visiting people in their homes to offer them HIV tests, and referring those who test positive to local clinics, can significantly reduce new infections in a community, according to… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: U.S.$80 Million Raised to Fight Ebola, More Needed

The World Bank, supported by Japan, Germany and Australia, has allocated up to U.S. $80 million in grants over the next six months to help fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of… Read more »

Africa: Africa Poised to Tackle Hygiene and Sanitation

The 2019 African Conference on Sanitation took place at in Cape Town, South Africa, from February 20 to 22 Up for discussion? The role of local authorities as key actors in aiding… Read more »

Africa: Finding Solutions for Sanitation Problems in Africa

Access to proper sanitation and hygiene continues to prove a challenge to African countries. Following the success of previous conferences, the African Ministers'  Council on… Read more »

Nigeria: Focus Is 'Economic Development', Not 'Economic Growth' - Presidential Candidate Moghalu

In response to a question about achieving such health goals as reducing high death rates from pregnancy and childbirth and from malaria, Nigerian Presidential candidate Kingsley… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Degrees of Success With Ebola as Trial Treatment Begins

Doctors Without Borders in collaboration with the Democratic Republic of Congo Ministry of Health, has started enrolling patients in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of four… Read more »

Africa: Why Surveillance of Essential Vaccines is Important

Immunization is one of the most effective public health interventions that prevent millions of deaths every year in all age groups from vaccine-preventable diseases. Despite… Read more »

Uganda: When Electricity Means Life or Death for Hospital Patients

Electricity is considered a luxury in parts of Africa. When it comes to its supply in public health facilities however, it can mean life or death. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Meet The Teenagers Making an Aids-Free Zimbabwe a Reality

An AIDS-free generation once seemed like a far-off dream but with the help of organisations like Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) the dream is now becoming a reality. Melody Chironda… Read more »

Zimbabwe: How MSF's Rural Programme for HIV+ Villagers Has Worked

Medecins Sans Frontiers Director in Zimbabwe Bjørn Nissen talks about the importance of the Mwenezi project, the adolescent projects in Mbare and shares the challenges of… Read more »

Zimbabwe: The Struggle to End HIV Epidemic in Rural Mwenezi

On the steep hills and mountains of Mwenezi - a rural district situated in southern Zimbabwe - is where you find hundreds of villagers living with some of the highest rates of HIV… Read more »

Central Africa: Nobel Laureate Calls for Sanctions Against Leaders Who Tolerate Sexual Violence

Dr. Denis Mukwege, the Congolese obstetrician and gynaecologist who operates a hospital in Bukavu and who campaigns against the use of rape and sexualized violence as a weapon of… Read more »

Africa: Children and HIV/Aids - 'We Need to Talk About Men's Power Over Girls'

360,000 adolescents are projected to die of AIDS-related diseases between 2018 and 2030. This means 76 adolescent deaths every day – without additional investment in HIV… Read more »

Africa: Namibia's Health Minister Dr Bernard Haufiku on How HIV Testing is Key

What the Namibian Health Minister, Dr Bernard Haufiku, said about fighting HIV/Aids in his country: Read more »

Nigeria: Blac Chyna Coming to Nigeria to Sell Skin Lightening Cream? Oh Hell No!

We are cool with people coming to Africa to sell and promote their products but when you come to the continent to sell stuff that is harmful to us - then we have a problem. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: What The World, And Trump, Needs to Do to Stop Ebola Deaths

More than 200 people have died of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as fears grow that the latest outbreak is being worsened by the increasing fighting in the eastern… Read more »

Namibia: Namibia Makes Strides in Tackling Malaria

The Namibian government and its health partners seem to be at the forefront of the battle against malaria, as WHO launches a new country-driven “High burden to high… Read more »

Africa: Getting the Global Malaria Response Back on Track

The foreword to the 2018 World malaria report by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization: Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Now Ebola Fighters Face Attacks While Battling Deadly Disease

Security concerns remain a major obstacle in ending the Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo, that has so far claimed more than 200 lives. On November 16, more than a dozen WHO staff had… Read more »

South Africa: Foreigners Are a Burden on Our Health System - Minister

South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says foreign nationals are burdening the South African health system. Read more »